How should mission strategy and outreach be integrated in a church plan?

• A. Outreach is the long-range vision for making disciples; mission strategy is practical community engagement.
• B. Mission strategy is long-range vision for making disciples; outreach is practical engagement; align both under the Great Commission.
• C. They are unrelated concepts and should be kept separate.
• D. They are the same concept.

Answer: (B)

The main idea here is that mission strategy and outreach play different but complementary roles in a church plan. Mission strategy sets the long-range vision for making disciples—defining where you’re headed over years, what transformation you want to see, and how you’ll measure progress. Outreach translates that vision into lived action—concrete, practical ways to connect with people, serve the community, and invite them into disciple-making pathways. They belong together under the Great Commission, which grounds both in the call to make disciples of all nations.

Why this is the strongest approach: framing mission strategy as the long-range vision ensures the church isn’t just doing activities in isolation, but pursuing a purposeful, scalable plan for spiritual growth. Treating outreach as practical engagement ensures those plans are enacted in real-life contact, relationships, and service, rather than remaining theoretical. Aligning both under the Great Commission keeps the purpose clear: every outreach effort feeds into the broader goal of disciple-making.

The other options don’t fit because they either swap the roles (outreach as the long-range vision and strategy as mere engagement), treat them as unrelated, or treat them as the same concept.